The Stranger by Albert Camus - Paperback

Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at various jobs–in a weather bureau, in an automobile supply firm, in a shipping company–to help pay for his courses at the University of Algiers. He went on to become a journalist, and from 1935 to 1938 he ran the Theatre de l’Equipe, a theatrical company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoyevsky, and others. During World War II he was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat, then an important underground newspaper. His fiction, incl

“The Strangeris a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and

“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and -devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” -from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie

ISBN: 9780679720201

Publisher: Vintage Books USA

Binding: Paperback

Publication Date: March 13, 1989

Pages: 144

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Dimensions (CM): 1.14 cms H x 20.32 cms L x 13.21 cms W

Weight (KG): 0.14

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